France delays vaccine mandate on Caribbean islands amid protests

Demonstrators have taken to the streets in Martinique and Guadeloupe over the past week to protest mandatory vaccination rules for health workers GUADELOUPE, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — France has postponed a mandatory coronavirus vaccination requirement for health workers in Guadeloupe and Martinique, after the measure spurred several days of widespread…

Cameroon school attack scares students, teachers

YAOUNDE, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Cameroonian officials say a suspected separatist attack on a school this week, which left four students and a teacher dead, has scared hundreds of teachers and students from going to school. Cameroon’s military said it launched a search Thursday for the suspected rebels, who it…

Covid-19: Chile lowers vaccination age for children down to the age of 3

SANTIAGO, Nov 27 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chilean health authorities have allowed children from the age of 3 onwards to be vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Chinese-developed Sinovac drugs, the one most widely used on adults in the country, it was announced Thursday. Before Thursday, immunization had been cleared by The Government’s…

Armenia, Azerbaijan agree to ease tension under Putin’s watch

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (R) and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (L) during a joint statement following their trilateral talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia MOSCOW, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The leaders of arch foes Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to ease tensions…

Covid-19: Kenya receives 834,130 doses of Pfizer from US Govt

NAIROBI, Nov 27 (NNN-KBC) — Kenya has received a donation of 834,130 doses of Pfizer vaccines from the US government. The vaccines arrived Friday evening were received by Ministry of Health officials led the Port Health Officer in charge at JKIA Benjamin Murkomen. US officials were led by the head…

Top US diplomat for Asia to visit four ASEAN countries

WASHINGTON, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The top US diplomat for East Asia will visit Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand from the weekend after President Joe Biden pledged stepped up engagement with Southeast Asia, a key battleground in his contest for influence with China. Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for…

Two students, driver killed in Kosovo bus shooting

  GLLOGJAN (Kosovo), Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A gunman opened fire late Friday on a bus in Kosovo carrying school students, killing a boy and a girl and the driver, police said.   Another 14 year-old student was wounded but is in stable condition, Skender Dreshaj, the head of a…

UN chief condemns terrorist attack on UN-affiliated convoy in Somalia

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 27 (NNN-Xinhua) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned Thursday’s deadly terrorist attack on a UN-affiliated convoy in front of a school in Mogadishu, Somalia, said his deputy spokesman. The secretary-general extended his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and wished a swift recovery to…

19 killed in Mexico bus crash

MEXICO CITY, Nov 27 (NNN-Xinhua) — At least 19 people were killed and around 25 others injured on Friday after their bus crashed into a house in central Mexico due to a brake malfunction, a local official said. The brakes on the bus, which was running on a highway and…

Colombia charges former FARC rebels with destruction of Amazon

A parked car is seen on an illegal road in a deforested area of the Yari plains, in Caqueta, Colombia BOGOTA, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Colombia has charged the leader of a breakaway faction of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group with deforesting vast portions of…